cloute

See also: clouté

French

Verb

cloute

1. inflection of clouter:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

cloute

1. Alternative form of clout
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, lines 707-709:

     And whan sche of this bille hath taken heede, / Sche rente it al to cloutes atte laste / And into the privy softely it caste.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Etymology 2

Verb

cloute

1. Alternative form of clouten